Back to the future: The organizational-activational hypothesis adapted to puberty and adolescence

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 597-604

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a   Molenda Figueira, Heather A ^b   Sisk, Cheryl L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brain development; Estradiol; Hormonal sensitivity; Organizational effects; Pubertal timing; Puberty; Sensitive period; Social behavior; Social experience; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

STEROID HORMONE; TESTIS PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; COGNITION; HORMONE RELEASE; MATING; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHILD; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 65549086518     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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